7/4/2023 0 Comments Harry behn halloween poemThough the family was able to get on its feet again and rent a basement apartment, relations soon deteriorated between Hopkins’s parents, leading to separation. The oldest child in the family, Hopkins had to help out with the family finances, often missing school so he could work. At age ten, his family moved in with other relatives to make ends meet, and he spent most of his youth in Newark, New Jersey. Poetry, Hopkins stated in Instructor magazine, “should come to as naturally as breathing, for nothing- no thing: can ring and rage through hearts and minds as does this genre of literature.”īorn in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1938, Hopkins grew up in a poor but close family. His collections encompass a variety of topics, including animals, holidays, the seasons, and works of noted poets like Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. The compiler of numerous children’s verse collections, “Hopkins has spent his career trying to make the crystal image accessible to children,” noted Manna. Manna in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Lee Bennett Hopkins is “one of America’s most prolific anthologists of poetry for young people,” according to Anthony L.
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